The Birth of Wallace Lin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10890845 |
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| Authors | Shawn Wong (0000-0002-4170-3015, Shawn Wong is the author of two novels, Homebase and American Knees. The film version of American Knees, titled “Americanese,” will be released soon. He is also the co-editor and editor of six Asian American and American multicultural literary anthologies, including the pioneering anthology Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers. Wong was featured in the Bill Moyers PBS documentary, “Becoming American: The Chinese Experience.” He is currently Professor of English at the University of..., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 130-138 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Amerasia Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-7471 • E-ISSN: 2642-0228 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17953/amer.37.1.d27642606324m083 |
| OpenAlex | W2300370683 |
| Language | EN |
You know you've been around a long time when you realize you can catalog your place among literary multicultural trivia: My picture is in Ishmael Reed's novel, Mumbo Jumbo, I met Frank Chin when I was a nineteen-year-old junior at UC Berkeley and he bought me my first cappuccino, the main character in Kay Boyle's novel, The Underground Woman, thinks of me by name and quotes from my novel, Homebase, while sitting in prison, and I've known Leslie Silko before either of us ever published a book. A review copy of Maxine Hong Kingston's book The Woman Warrior was sent to me just before its publication in 1976 and I gave it to Frank Chin (yes, it's all my fault), saying something like, This is an interesting book. . And, one of the greatest literary debates/war began
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Character (mathematics · Chin · Literature · Multiculturalism · Prison · Theology · Classics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Medicine · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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